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• Elseship

  An Unrequited Affair

  Abraham, Tree,

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  When Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate who does not reciprocate the feeling, instead of breaking up, they keep going. This story begins where most end. elseship deftly and courageously recounts the starts and stops of a transitioning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ten Bridges I've Burnt

  a Memoir in Verse

  Purnell, Brontez,

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  From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.

• No One Dies Yet

  Ben Ben, Kobby

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  A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice

• Neptune Frost

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  Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has previously explored in his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Z Word

  King-Miller, Lindsay

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  Packed with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the queer Zombieland you didn't know you needed.

• I Finally Bought Some Jordans

  Essays

  Arceneaux, Michael,

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  I Finally Bought Some Jordans is both a corrective to, and a balm for, these troubling times, revealing a sharply funny and keen-eyed storyteller working at the height of his craft.

• Canto Contigo

  Garza Villa, Jonny,

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  When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot--what we gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.

• Dear Wendy

  Zhao, Ann,

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  Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual point of view young adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao.

• Cinema Love

  a Novel

  Tang, Jiaming,

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  A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.

• Beyond They/them

  20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-diverse People You Should Know

  Dickson, Em,

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  Beyond They/Them is a captivating, gorgeously illustrated book celebrating 20 trailblazing nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit individuals who have left an indelible mark on music, sports, film and television, politics, and more.

• Boys Come First

  Foley, Aaron,

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  Three Black gay millennial men look for love, friendship, and professional success in the Motor City in this hilarious and touching debut novel.

• Lavash at First Sight

  Voskuni, Taleen,

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  Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, author of Sorry, Bro.

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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  Based on Benjamin Alire Sáenz's YA novel, the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.

• And the Category Is...

  Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community

  Tucker, Ricky, 1982-

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  Ballroom, and the house/vogue system, is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LQBTQ Black and Latinx people of Harlem. Creative, talent-laden, and intersectional, it transcends identity, serving as a fearless response to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bingo Love

  Franklin, Tee

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  When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gods of Want

  Stories

  Chang, K-Ming,

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  A collection of short stories that leave the reader with a lingering sense that language, as well as life, is infinitely adaptable, no matter the ground on which it is given to grow. Lurid, funny, strange, and deftly sorrowing—an important new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Want to Be a Wall. 1

  Shirono, Honami,

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  Any love story aficionado will say that the key to a successful couple is intense desire for one another--but what if the characters in question are an asexual woman with a passion for Boys Love stories and a gay man whose heart forever belongs to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inspection

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  Ellis becomes homeless after his homophobic mother disowns him. He is forced to enlist in the Marines and conceal his sexuality at a time when the military still operated under Clinton’s archaic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

• A Place of Our Own

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  Shining with quiet authenticity and a fierce heart, A PLACE OF OUR OWN is the story of two transwomen fighting for a life that is more than marginal.

• A Two-Spirit Journey

  Plummer, Mary Louisa

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  A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation